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2 supermarket chains resume selling U.S. beef

SAPPORO, Japan - A customer checks out U.S. beef products at an outlet of supermarket chain operator Cowboy Co. in Sapporo on Dec. 26 as the company started selling 200 kilograms of U.S. beef, including sirloin and tongue, at its four outlets in the city. Marunaka Co., a supermarket chain operator based in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, also resumed selling U.S. beef.

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2 supermarket chains resume selling U.S. beef

SAPPORO, Japan - A customer checks out U.S. beef products at an outlet of supermarket chain operator Cowboy Co. in Sapporo on Dec. 26 as the company started selling 200 kilograms of U.S. beef, including sirloin and tongue, at its four outlets in the city. Marunaka Co., a supermarket chain operator based in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, also resumed selling U.S. beef. (Kyodo)

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Hybrid 'wagyu' beef goes on sale in U.K. supermarkets

LONDON, Britain - Photo taken Nov. 24, 2011, shows Angie Jessup, butcher at an Asda supermarket in south London, holding a plate of sirloin steak from Wagyu-Holstein hybrid cattle farmed in Britain for the supermarket. The supermarket chain, which began selling the beef on Nov. 23, is able to offer the meat at prices substantially lower than pure wagyu beef as it comes from hybrid cattle. (Kyodo)